On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:53:20 -0700 (PDT) Len Ovens <l...@ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, bill-auger wrote: > >> the debian maintainer of freewheeling suggested that it should >> autostart the server if it is not running (change JackNoStartServer to >> JackNullOption) >> >> i have my opinion; but i am interested in others > >In my opinion jack should never start itself. I spend more time on irc >helping people "killall -9 jackd jackdbus" than just about anything else. >It is a slick idea but in practice it causes more trouble than it's worth. > >Setting up jack to be my audio device (starts at session start) has been >the least trouble. > >While advertized as help for newbys, in the end this is an advanced option >only useful for those who understand jackd well... default off makes the >most sense. I'm against the idea of autostart as well. In my experience anything that does that is a recipe for unintended consequences. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
